http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Infectious diseases in Ghana tend to capture the most attention, but a quiet crisis may soon take over as the country's most threatening epidemic: cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-stigma-stymies-prostate-cancer-screening.html Cancer Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:35:22 EST news278267715 New research suggests that lowering excessive levels of a protein in immune system cells could be a strategy to clear an infection that is deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-strategy-deadly-infection-cystic.html Medical research Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:35:54 EST news278170549 Old age comes faster and hits harder for those infected with HIV, a fact aging health activist Ron Swanda knows all too well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-activist-discusses-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:04:57 EST news273481483 (Medical Xpress)—Having HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence, but it's still a lifelong illness that requires an expensive daily cocktail of drugs—and it means tolerating those drugs' side effects and running the risk of resistance. Researchers at The Rockefeller University may have found something better: they've shown that a therapeutic approach harnessing proteins from the human immune system can suppress the virus in mice without the need for daily application and could one day be used in humans to treat the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-potent-antibodies-neutralize-hiv-therapy.html Immunology Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:07:01 EST news271494406 Death knows the small town of Prieska all too well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-blue-killer-unchecked-safrican-toxic.html Health Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:11:07 EST news263700660 A diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is generally a death sentence, but new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison lab of Dr. John Kuo shows that at least one subtype is associated with a longer life expectancy. This discovery could help with better patient prognoses and lead to targeted drug treatments for GBM subtypes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-prognosis-tool-deadly-brain-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:31:43 EST news259414294 South Africa on Friday unveiled plans for a 1.6 billion rand ($208 million, 157 million euro) pharmaceutical plant, in a joint venture with Swiss biochemicals group Lonza to produce anti-AIDS drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-safrica-mln-aids-drug-venture.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:40:48 EST news248089236 (Medical Xpress) -- Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some patients have a good chance of survival if treated with a type of radiation that precisely targets small tumors, researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Rochester report online and in an upcoming print edition of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-tumors-breast-cancers.html Cancer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:54:39 EST news247474470 Only a few decades ago, sudden cardiac arrest was a death sentence. Today, a victim of sudden cardiac arrest is saved roughly once every six hours in Sweden, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reviewing all cases of sudden cardiac arrest over a 30-year period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-sharp-decrease-deaths-sudden-cardiac.html Cardiology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:21:28 EST news241262478 (AP) -- An independent British medical watchdog says the first treatment proven to help people with the deadliest form of skin cancer is too expensive to be used by the U.K.'s health care system, a recommendation critics called a potential death sentence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-uk-medical-group-skin-cancer.html Cancer Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:08:07 EST news237877679